Platinum Azure Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Hi all, I was just curious who (if anyone) has heard of Diplomacy, the board game. Anyone play? If so, who's your favorite power? Do you do face-to-face, postal, e-mail, or web play? Anyone have any stories? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game) if you want to learn a little more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I finished a game a couple months ago with a few guys from Remod. It's good times, but it pretty much consumed my life, even when I was away from the computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarnCarby Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I played a couple face to face games with friends in college, but we settled on e-mail games for allowing a better (and more entertaining) way to communicate. I think the theory was also that it's less of a time commitment, because we'd just submit orders around three times a week. Turns out that's crap, though, as dhsu pointed out: it consumes your life even when you're not at the computer. It also turns out that playing a game that requires a lot of dissembling and treachery is not, in fact, a good way to keep in touch with old friends spread out over the country. I don't remember any particularly entertaining stories, beyond the usual amusing indignation when things don't work out the way a power planned. I once stepped in at the tail end of a game that had basically come down to a standoff between Germany and Austria, with an emaciated Russia as a weak third power. Russia had been a newbie and something of a pawn of Austria's for a while. I managed to play Germany and Austria for WAY longer than I should have gotten away with, to the point where they proposed a three way draw. Then there was the Youngstown variant game where my friend (Russia) and I (China) agreed to an ironclad alliance for a shared victory. This is sort of against the spirit of the game, and for good reason -- after we'd obliterated Japan (who had nobody he could turn to for help), like four other powers formed a globe-spanning alliance to take us down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Azure Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 Dhsu: Good stuff... incidentally, what's Remod? I've heard that thrown around a couple of times... CarnCarby: Hahaha, brilliant. I haven't even played Youngstown. It's good to see some people have heard of the game, but I'm a little disappointed not to see more tbqh. I was actually pondering trying to start a game or two here, if possible. I'm not sure how it is that with orders due every three days it consumes your life (I play on a site where orders are usually due every 24 hours and I somehow don't let it consume my life), but if anything were to happen here I'd probably want to do something like having a diplomacy phase last for four or five days and retreats and adjustments filling out the last two or three in a given week... I dunno. Of course, with the interest shown so far a game couldn't happen... Ah well, I can dream. Incidentally, would either of you two be remotely interested in getting a game going here on OCR? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Well the way it worked with our game was that orders were due weekly, so people wouldn't even check the game except for every other day. Then we'd spend 3 days in negotiation, which resulted in last-minute orders on more than one occasion. Anyway, Remod is the result of OCR previously having an unmoderated forum (or "UnMod"), that was summarily deleted without warning in a hotel room one New Year, which caused many of the former residents to regroup elsewhere - namely http://remod.cakearmy.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pezman Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!!! I loved this game in middle/high school. There was an afterschool activity where we could play, and we had a lot of fun with it. The activity kind of disbanded my junior and senior years of high school, but for my Diplomatic History course we got to play that game for an assignment. It was awesome. I'd love to play it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Azure Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 I guess if you spend three days in negotiations that would kind of run your life. Where I play it's more message-based, with people usually sending private press something like once a day on average (the more prolific communicators would do twice or thrice, or more if you're logged on at the same time as they are, but many would also treat the game like gunboat! always saddening). I guess my experience is just limited, though. Does anyone here think they'd be remotely interested in trying to play here... if we get like five more? EDIT: Holy crap I missed Pezman's post. My bad! I'm really glad to see you'd be on board. Now to get... um... a lot more people! w00t! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 The activity kind of disbanded Har har. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Azure Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 Good spot, Dhsu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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